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Lightfastness Testing

It's spring, which means more light up here in the north so it's a good time to set up lightfastness tests. It's something I've been wanting to do for ages. Want to see the process? Let's go! Lightfastness is a

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EDI Live: Apr 22, 12pm PST

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April 2023: Materials play

A key to creative energy is the willingness to use your supplies. Use them freely, use them on things that don't work out, waste them, use them up. As much I know this, I still feel resistance from the part of me that wants to collect art supplies

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EDI Live Today: Ref phots

Hello friends! Here are some images I'll be referencing during out session. These first ones are photos of James Gurney's superb book Color and Light.  Below those is a link to the folder of images I may use to paint from today. Looking forward to seeing

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Limited palettes

Earlier this month I shared a way to understand color as relative. Another way to explore this concept is to paint the same image with different limited palettes– in each case I'll be using a red, blue and yellow plus white. Each combination I choose will create a

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March 2023: Shifting color

I'm thrilled to be sharing about one of my favorite topics: color. I want to focus specifically on how colors compare to each other, because it's often the relative shift between two colors that matters more than the exact colors. I felt that it would be

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EDI Live: Mar 25, 12pm PST

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Ways to use a journal

I wrote to you earlier this month about how using a notebook helps me as an artist. In this post I'm going share a few ways I've learned to use it as a tool for processing and cultivating creative ideas. Bullet Journal Method Ever since I

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EDI Live - Reference Photos

Hi friends, Below are some reference photos I may draw from in our class today. We'll be taking a look at applying the concepts of water control we talked about last month. Excited to see you! As usual, please join me 10-15 min early if you'd

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Watercolor Flowers & Fruit! 🍒

Flowers and fruit are wonderfully flexible objects to paint. There's room for a lot of variation while still allowing for recognizability, so they're some of my favorite things to sketch when I want to get a feel for new paint or paper. Here are some that

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Try It: Water Control

So much of water control is a hand feel, a sense that develops with lots of experience, where we know how much we can ask of our paint and when to sit back and trust it to do its thing. Here are four swatching exercises I'd recommend to

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Water Control

In our January Live class I showed strategies for water control when using watercolor and wanted to share some of those ideas and practice strategies with you all here. I will demonstrate another round of examples in our February EDI Live this weekend! Watercolor is surprising and unpredictable – this is

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EDI Live: Feb 25, 12pm PST

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February 2023: Keeping a journal

I have kept a just-for-me catch-all notebook for over 20 years or so. In my mind, the pages lined up edge to edge would wrap around my entire life twice at least, but in reality they fit in a few boxes, with all the books from the past decade fitting

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Swatching Oils

Today's post is a quick one. I want to show you some swatching I've done recently as I've been trying out some new paints. I started on a set of large commissions last year and was several weeks of work into it when the

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Making creative space

It was a little over two years into my increasingly regular art practice that I, for the first time, quit a job because I hated it. Until then I was the kind of person who stayed everywhere as long as possible. Now, I had become someone who might leave because

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January 2023: The Art Start List

It's 2023! I have so many things I'm excited to share with you this year. We're going deeper and wider and I'm so looking forward to getting to know you all more and learn together. I'm also energized because New

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EDI Live: Jan 28, 12pm PST

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Surprising myself: Painting the forest after the fire

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EDI Live Reference Photo - 12PM PST Today

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Mixing your media

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Dec 2022: Wintering

Winter is here! We had our first little bit of snow at least, and I feel the shift in my body - dark, short days, and the pull to be inside, in the warmest spot I can find. I'm noticing the way my approach to making art changes

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EDI Live: Dec 17, 12pm PST

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